Word: eyeful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...retaliation can bring back the dead. Getting even would only follow the Middle East's tradition of an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth...
Because the early hours in orbit are critical in judging human reaction to weightlessness, the scientist-astronauts got a fast start on their biomedical program. They took blood samples from one another (Payload Specialist Byron Lichtenberg, as the chief bloodletter, became known as "the vampire"), underwent eye tests, lifted steel balls, were flung around in a sledlike contraption called a body-restraint system, and even endured electric shocks. Not surprisingly, the orbital guinea pigs complained that the tests were making them ill, although the torture had a medical purpose: to learn more about the nausea, headaches and general lethargy, known...
...apartheid regime in South Africa that they must also begin to oppose the foreign and military policies of Israel, the strongest ally of the white supremacist government. The same applies to the opponents of right-wing repression in South and Central America; they must begin to cast a critical eye towards Israel...
Hockney is that unusual combination, a consummate stylist who (almost) never allows his sense of style to stereotype feeling. His work has graces, but not airs. Landscapes, friends, erotic encounters, historical parody, memories of travel, all are distanced, rendered down into epitomes, laid before the eye with a sweetly honed line...
everywhere. One man lay drenched in it-with only the movement of one eye showing that he was still alive-and the mattress beneath him was drenched too. One recalled Lady Macbeth's outburst of horror: "Who would have thought the old man to have had so much blood in him?" The injured in Lawrence, Kans., smiled bravely at their injuries. The young actress who was supposed to be suffering from radiation sickness smiled bravely at the student who comforted her, and he smiled bravely back. On a cot in Cambodia lay a young man whose arm had just...